Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows.
Ways to buy 7
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API · cached $0.3 | $3 | $15 | $3 / $15List price | $0.3 | List price |
Default region · cached $0.3 | $3 | $15 | $3 / $15Same as list | $0.3 | Same as list |
global · cached $0.3 | $3 | $15 | $3 / $15Same as list | $0.3 | Same as list |
Default region · cached $0.3 | $3 | $15 | $3 / $15Same as list | $0.3 | Same as list |
global · cached $0.3 | $3 | $15 | $3 / $15Same as list | $0.3 | Same as list |
eu-west-1 · cached $0.33 | $3.3 | $16.5 | $3.3 / $16.5+10% vs list | $0.33 | +10% vs list |
us-east5 · cached $0.33 | $3.3 | $16.5 | $3.3 / $16.5+10% vs list | $0.33 | +10% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens; batch $1.5 in, $7.5 out on the lab's API. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $600.00 direct.
Helicone$600.00+0%
Kong AI Gateway$600.00+0%
LiteLLM$600.00+0%
Neon AI Gateway$600.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$600.00+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$630.00+5%
Requesty$630.00+5%
Eden AI$633.00+5.5%
OpenRouter$633.00+5.5%
No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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About Claude Sonnet 4.5
Takes text, image, files in and returns text. First listed Oct 1, 2025. Up to 64K output tokens. Blended price $6 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id claude-sonnet-4-5.
Price history
List price since Oct 1, 2025, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
Questions
How much does Claude Sonnet 4.5 cost?
$3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.3, or $1.5 and $7.5 through the Batch API.
What is the context window of Claude Sonnet 4.5?
1M tokens, with up to 64K tokens of output.
Where is Claude Sonnet 4.5 cheapest?
Of 7 routes tracked, AWS Bedrock is cheapest at $3 input and $15 output per million tokens.